Thieves break into Springfield home, steal 500-pound gun safe containing 15 weapons

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69. personally, I like a bigger safe but I think this gun owner did all that we could expect of him

to keep his weapons secured. that's my bottom line. that it was stolen along with its contents speaks more to the audacity of the thieves than lack of due diligence on the part of the gun owner and to imply that he is in any way accountable for what happens to those weapons once they filter out to the streets is preposterous. The thieves who stole them are accountable as are the dealers who buy them and resell them to the criminals as are the criminals who use them but not the individual who had the firearms stolen in the first place. I personally find it objectionable to require a safe of any kind in order to exercise your constitutional right, especially when the safe your talking about costs in the neighborhood of $2,500-$3,000 and especially when the smaller safes serve their intended purpose better than 99.9999999% of the time. Seriously, how much safe would you require a man to purchase in order to exercise his constitutional right to keep and bear arms?